News Round-Up

• “Masks may be mandatory in some settings if Covid spikes” – Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has presented the Cabinet with an emergency response plan for the event of a new Covid variant of concern this winter, reports RTE
• “Austrian politician says return of mask mandates ‘expected’ after data projects re-elected president” – LifeSite News reports that less than an hour after the first election results projection showed that President Alexander Van der Bellen was re-elected as president of Austria, a Government official announced that mask mandates would be making a return
• “Covid Fraud: A Staggering $600 Billion” – “Congress appropriated more than five trillion dollars for Covid relief but almost $600 billion may have been lost to fraud,” writes James Bovard for the Brownstone Institute. “Washington’s pandemic pratfalls are the greatest federal boondoggle of this century”
• “Former French Presidential Candidate Says COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Almost Killed Me’” – Former French presidential candidate Jean Lassalle told NTD news that he underwent several operations and nearly died after receiving a Covid vaccine, the Epoch Times reports. He also alleged that President Macron has not been jabbed
• “Majority of ventilators bought by Trudeau Liberals still sitting unused” – The Trudeau Liberals have since admitted that they may have overestimated the amount of ventilators it needed, the Post Millennial reports, and have moved the vast majority to a warehouse for storage
• “Is Eric Topol right about the Japanese and the jabs?” – Guy Gin takes Eric Topel to task over his claim that Japan’s low Covid mortality is linked to its higher rate of vaccine and booster uptake
• “A Vaccine is a Vaccine is a Vaccine” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson examines a new study, conducted by Moderna, which shows how the vaccinated are “more likely to become infected with the latest variants of COVID-19 than the unvaccinated as time passes”
• “LinkedIn suspends account of top UK educator for trying to protect children from medical abuse” –  Joel Smalley reports that LinkedIn has cancelled Hugh McCarthy, a former headteacher and the author of an article in UK Column which argued against giving children a Covid jab. “No reason given,” says Joel “Work it out for yourself”
• “Artificial grass roots” – El Gato Malo responds to the revelation from a Freedom of Information Act request that the HHS and the CDC paid screen writers and comedians to mock the unvaccinated. “Never trust the song of a bard who was paid to write it”
• “Leaked EU-Pfizer agreement reveals cover-up of bacterial proteins, endotoxins, DNA, dsRNA, other contaminants and up to 50% truncated, modified, recombined, junk mRNA in the vaccine” – Vinu Arumugham examines the contents of an advanced purchase agreement between the EU and Pfizer BioNTech which was leaked to Robert Malone by Italian activists
• “It is five past 12” – Omicron is now causing a fast and large-scale immune escape in vaccines, says Geert Vanden Bossche in his latest and last video message, published on Voice for Science and Solidarity
• “My CPAC turpitudes” – Spectator Australia publishes Geologist Ian Plimer’s remarks at the CPAC conference in Sydney. His first turpitude: “No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming”
• “Just Stop Oil: Drivers drag protesters from street as Knightsbridge blockade stops fire engine reaching emergency” – The Telegraph tells of how frustrated motorists took matters into their own hands when Just Stop Oil protesters blocked a road in Knightsbridge yesterday
• “Why eco-activists are so hostile to humanity” –  Spiked’s Brendan O’Neil explains why he feels a “strong sense of pride over the revolt against Just Stop Oil”
• “Stress is normal, Harry – and we don’t need emotional support dogs to handle it” – John Humphrys writes in the Telegraph with a sceptical take on the Department of Health’s upcoming campaign aimed at helping us cope with the ‘Sunday Scaries’
• “Transgender schools guidance says discussing women’s rights could be offensive” – A draft policy by the National Education Union would label teachers ‘transphobic’ if they discuss sex-based women’s rights with transgender colleagues, according to the Telegraph
• “Video games could trigger heart attacks in children” – New research has found a link between computer games and heart attacks in children with undiagnosed cardiac issues, the Telegraph reports
• “Kwarteng’s mini-Budget will boost economic growth in Britain, admits IMF” – UK economic growth will outpace the rest of the G7 in 2022, the IMF has said, according to the Telegraph. And the Chancellor’s tax cuts are expected to lift growth even higher than the 3.5% currently forecast
• “Goodhart’s law and order: the problem with policing by central diktat” – Ian Acheson writes in CAPX with a warning for Suella Braverman, our new Home Secretary, against trying to fight crime by central fiat
• “Why have so many students given up on free speech?” – Writing for Spiked, Arif Ahmed takes heart from a recent King’s College London survey which found that a while a vocal minority is opposed, the majority of students supports the incoming Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
• “Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Leaving Party” – “Today’s Democratic Party does not believe in our constitutionally protected right to free speech,” said former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, according to the Epoch Times, as she announced her departure from the party
• “Paypal Stocks Plunge $6 Billion” – Paypal’s stock is down and ‘Delete PayPal’ are up 1,300%, reports Not On The Beeb (who were defunded by Paypal back in June)
• “The Genius Behind PayPal’s Bad Idea” – Watch the reliably entertaining JP’s take on PayPal’s hastily withdrawn misinformation policy
• “Why cash should be king again” – Over in the Conservative Woman, John Drewry sounds a warning against the “seductive, Luciferian beauty of digital”
• “Europe’s descent into totalitarianism” – Writing for the Forum for Democracy International, John Laughland tells of how, earlier this month, he was detained by anti-terrorism police at Gatwick airport
• “It’s too late, mate” – Nat highlights a spot of back-peddling on the part of Piers Morgan
• “Peak fact-check absurdity” – Izabella Kaminska highlights an absurd fact check on reports that Paypal intends to fine users for spreading misinformation. Its false, the fact check found, because paypal reversed the policy and announced that the clause was inserted in error

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